fell short of significancep = 0.07
Geriatric patients were less likely on pre-operative nasal steroids (25% versus 76.2%, p = 0.0001), more likely to be taking anticoagulation (21.2% versus 0%, p = 0.017), and more often hypertensive although this fell short of significance (41.8% versus 20.8%, p = 0.07).